The Arkansas legislature convened yesterday and it’s apparent the digital revolution is chasing them down at full speed.  Last time around you could tune into the Arkansas Times Arkansas Blog for an overview or Steve Harrellson’s Under the Dome for the details, but you only got their distinct opinion on [...]

Gizmodo: Check out how the yellow line appears on your TV screen when you watch that bowl game. It’s complicated cool.

Some Sun engineers ran some tests to determine if yelling at your computer actually helped or hurt and discovered that yelling at your computer actually slows down the hard drive and slows down your computer. I guess that means that my infrequent outbursts actually slowed down my compute rmore. I [...]

I’ve pretty much had every kind of phone, internet, tv connection (cable, wireless, no phone, tivo, dsl) that you could name, but in Little Rock I found a new one to try– AT&T U-verse- that had a really long, but still user-friendly sign-up process (although this post focuses on getting [...]

So, we’re moved in and all of utilities are on and haven’t been cut-off so I guess that’s a good sign that turning my electricity and gas on via the provider’s website actually worked. Starting up my natural gas account online with our provider CenterPoint/Energy was much like turning our [...]

New York Center is paying doctors to convert to electronic health records and subsidizing the cost of implementation. President-elect Obama pledged during his campaign to spend $50 billion over five years on electronic health records. The New York Times gives a good overview with a couple of examples of the [...]

Morris Interactive is launching a new drupal powered site for their Jacksonville Newspaper and have developed some great new features. My favorite feature extolled by Morris Interactive VP Steve Yelvington allows editors to design new home page and feature page layouts with no html knowledge– that’s right you heard me [...]

This is my first report in my “how moving works online” series looking specifically at how moving my utilities work. Our utility provider is Entergy that also covers portions of Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Entergy has developed sites for each of the areas that they cover, so I used [...]

So, we are about to move and I want to test the convenience of moving online. How many businesses, organizations, services, banks have the necessary moving services online? How do those services work? Is in real-time or time delayed. Are they user-friendly? As I take care of the business of [...]

John Naughton from the Guardian looks at which health care sites you can trust as a follow-up to Microsoft’s cyberchondria study. Most of the data he quotes is old, but the general premise comes down to the fact that you have to be very careful how much trust you put [...]